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First Trimester Pregnancy Symptoms - Hormones and Nausea, OH VAY!

published on June 19, 2013

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After going through my first 2 pregnancies I really thought I was prepared for this pregnancy. Of course I was dead wrong! Who knew first trimester pregnancy symptoms could be so different from my first 2 pregnancies.

Starting at week 5 the nausea began and never let up. Week 6 the vomiting started and always showed up at the worst times. The hormones started before I even took the pregnancy test! Every emotion I felt was tripled! If I was angry, watch out the steam and whistles are blowing like those cartoon characters you laugh at but this wasn't funny. If I was upset I cried buckets and I am not a crier. As a well informed WTE mom I was aware of what first trimester pregnancy symptoms could be but I was not prepared to experience them all on my third pregnancy when I had never experienced them like this in my previous pregnancies!

At my 8 week and first appointment I had to tell the receptionist I needed to get the bathroom fast which sent the entire waiting room into a wide eyed panic because she had to come around to the door and unlock it and I think my face was pretty pale at this point. As I am walking very quickly to the bathroom my OB says HEY! Pee in a cup while you're in there! This probably would have been really funny to me at the time if I wasn't trying to avoid throwing up on the carpet. As I have kinda gotten use to the morning sickness or in my case morning and afternoon sickness as much as anyone can get use to it the one first trimester pregnancy symptom that I can't seem to figure out are the extreme hormones and cravings.

I know what your thinking, really?? That's what you can't deal with when the toilet has become your least favorite thing?? Yea I know but that's something I can deal with. My OB gave me some meds to help deal with it and I've learned that I need to eat or the nausea gets worse. The hormones, cravings, and food aversions were not something I could control as well. I cry all the time! Seriously my oldest was watching a commercial for the new movie about the Easter bunny and he was getting so excited I started crying watching him. I cried watching a woman give birth to a baby girl. I cried when a little girl next to me started giggling with my 2 year old. I cried when my husband asked me what I wanted for dinner.

On top of the hormones I have a very strange appetite. I can't eat anything that I normally love. Not just what I normally love but what I ate constantly in my first 2 pregnancies. I can't cook because as soon as I do I don't want to eat it. My husband is frustrated because I am so tired during the day and at night that I can't keep my eyes open much less cook dinner like I love to do. He is out almost every night picking up something random for me to eat which is killing my grocery budget. I am going to be 11 weeks this Thursday and am counting down the days until the second trimester praying that these first trimester pregnancy symptoms start fading away!!